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INNOCENT CHILD.
She Was tn a Summer JTotel and So Jus
tified Her Motlier's Chllm.
r They were sitting on the porch after
breakfast, and the local pastor was
speaking of the great need of two new
plates for the collection. The cost
would not be over five dollars. The
girl with the pink silk skirt, who
couldn't make up her mind whether to
give the bureau cover she was working
to Harry or Wood, thought she would
compromise and offered to raflle it for
the church, says the Sew York Even
ing Sun.
"Good!" said the married lady with
the blue skirt. "That will be fifty
chances at ten cents a chance."
This made the lady with the pink
skirt look sleepy, for she had. expected
the proceeds to be sufficient for not
only the plates, bnt new pews, a steeple
with a clock and a set of chimes.
Then all the people in the hotel
gathered together, and the man from
Sandusky who had never seen the
water loaned his yachting cap. The
hotel was of the class where there is a
great deal of time, but not much hilarity
or food. So to make it last long they
decided to put fifty tickets in the hat
and the last one drawn was to get the
bureau cover. And then the question
arose as to who should draw them.
The funny man said, without any
'hesitation: "An innocent child."
And then all the mothers of children
looked around for their last horn.
The lady with the blue skirt spied
hers first and said: "Come, little
golden-haired Frances, hone can be
more innocent than you. Come and
draw fifty tickets out of this hot, slow
ly and one at a time.
"Say, ma," said golden-haired Fran
ces, "you make me drowsy. Do you
think I've got a plass arm?"
LUCKY MONEY.
How a Nefixo Acted Ov.'r a Coin He Had
JJoun I.
A negro running alonr- n uown-iown
street at headlou;' wood with 'a- small
lath in his hiiyih n'-lnolie jjjicjanecj"
a coin' of some- cfVuouiimttiau, Wm.r
source of much mystery ,to those who
saw him, says the I'lnhLuVlpliia Keoord.
Away he Hew up the street, jumping
gutters and other obstructions, mean
while frantically .yelling to the few
pedestrians to keep out of the way, un
til he finally disappeared in a small
court. Nobody seemed to he able to
five an explanation of the strange per
formance until another colored man
;ame along and threw some light on
.he subject, lie said the other negro
lad found the coin in the street, and,
vithout touching it with his hand, had
covered it up with dirt while lie wen',
iff to find the lath or something simi
ar, with which he returned to the
lace where the coin was concealed
ind scraped the latter out of the dirt,
e then ran as fast as he could to the
learest policy shop, where it was his
ntention to invest the lucky money,
ft was his firm belief that the quicker
ie got to his destination the greater
would be his luck. To touch the coin
with his fingers would have broken the
jpell.
Fun for tho Npvfstmys
Newsboys in New York have revived
an Odd game. As described in the New
York Tribune, one little fellow with a
newspaper rolled into a formidable-
sized club bangs the head of another as
hard as he can. The other little, fellow
never winces. After each blow is struck
both players stick out their little hands,
sometimes closely doubled up or with
the index finger sticking out. or with
two or throe or four lingers protrud
ing. The interest of the game centers
in the chance of both players putting out
the same combination of fingers. Then
the newspaper changes hands and the
play goes on.
Call for This Kteak.
Only a few people know that in every
carcass of beef there is a choice morsel.
Butchers don't tell their customers
about it, and very seldom are there any
calls for it. We prefer to reserve it for
our own tables, says a butcher. This
rare cut is known as "skirt steak." M
is a thin, flat bit of meat, tender and
juicy as young grass, adhering to the
ribs on either side OI trie lore pari. 01
the steer. The rarity of it is m the tuei
that out of a whole beef you can get
only about two pounds of this steuk.
It is so thin that it will not fry or
broil well in the ordinary way, and the
way I have ft cooked is to fry briskly ir
clear, boiling lard. When thus cooked
served piping hot, it is delicious. Ol
course it comes high.
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DIED CONTRARY LIKE.
And the Doctors Pound That They Had
Wasted Much Skill for Nothing.
' "It takes a good cteal to kill a man,
does it not?" asked a New York Herald
reporter, talking1 of electrocution and
the tremendous force required to make
that delicate yet tenacious machinery
stop suddenly like a clock held by the
hands, ."
Sometimes it does," replied the doc
tor. "And then, aain, it seems as if
they die abominably easy.
"I remember a case we had in the
Harlem hospital not long ago. A man
had tired three bullets into his abdo
men with intent of suicide. Nasty
wounds they were, too. Hut Dr. lilank
located the bullets and got them out,
and then sewed up the intestines in
several places, making a splendid job
of it.
Fpr several rtavthc. man did finely,
and just about the time you'wouTd have
said ho'' was out of danger he up and
died, but from what reasoii the deuce
only knows, for in the autopsy we
found all his organs healthy, and as for
the wounds they were almost entirely
healed. There was no inflammation
about the stitches, save in one place.
and that was so small and slight that it
was scarcely worth mentioning.
"And that is the way with man. If
you want him to die for his own sake
and everybody else's, he will hang on
and on, tenacious as a turtle. On the
other hand, he will often go off as if
breath had blown him into eternity."
ALL ABOUT A KISS.
A. Girl's InironiouH Tactics on Receiving
the First Wulute Iroui Her Lover.
This, I am assured, is a true story,
says a writer in the- Detroit Free Press.
The geniTeman himself told it to me,
and the lady, now his wife, sat beside
him and admitted it to be true. He had
waited cm heV'fov several weeks, when
one evening he resolved to kiss her, and
told her so.
"You shall do nothing of the kind,"
she 'said with a good deal of asperity.
, Brit he vas noj, to be frightened ou.
of it. lie reached for her, but she
drew away and indignantly declared
that if lie undertook any such liberties
she would scream, lie didn't believe
she would so he grabbed up and gave
her a good, rousing' smack.
fiure enough, she screeched like' a
steam calliope, and frightened the
young man well-nigh out of his senses,
for he heard the family rushing toward
the parlor., The young lady's mother
was the, first to enter, and the father
same close behind.
"What's the matter?" asked the
mother.
The young man stood by the piano,
wishing the roof would fall in and bury
everybody. The young lady had jumped
upon the sofa.
; "1 saw a mouse," she said.
The parents went . back, and the
young man kissed her until she couldn't
have told a.mo,iise,from a mountain.,
,ifA DREADFUL PRISON. V
No One Who Kntera Kver Keturns to tbe
p-i "Worlil Again.
Some fifty miles from St. Petersburg,
upon the lake of Ladoga, there is a
small granite island entirely occupied
by a fortress. It is SchlusBulburg, the
dreadful prison of state, worse than the
French bastile, worse than the fortress
of St. Peter and St. Paul, with its
Troubetzoi and Alenpevsky Ravelins
and its underground cells. The most
resolute, of the revolutionists, men and
women, who have taken part in actual
conspiracies, whom it is not considered
safe to keep in the fortress of Peter and
Paul, are sent there, says Kree Russia.
The absence of any inhabitants except
j those employed in service renders
il
possible to isolate the prisoners to a de
gree unattainable anywhere else. No
one is allowed to land upon the island
Sentinels have orders to shoot anyone
who approaches. If the near relative!
of a prisoner inquire concerning him at
the. police department in St. Petersburg
they are sometimes told "alive" 01
"dead." Sometimes no answer is given.
The soldiers and guards are them
selves prisoners who mingle only wltl.
each other, and are can-fully watched
on ine rare : occasions wiieu uiry are m-
lowed to make a visit to the mainland
It was possible to establish secret com
munication with even the most jealous
ly guarded prisoners in tho St. Peters
burg fortress. But the fortress of
Sehltisselburg remained dumb like the
grave it is, though some of the best
known men of tho revolutionary party,
in whom the grofitst interest was felt
amongthe whole body of revolutionists.
were kept then'. Wc rarely could even
tell whether th'!V were alive or dead
A few months ago, however, our friends
in Russia received some nev.-s from this
place of endless misery. It is very brief
only such as can he conveyed upon a
bit of paper smuggled with the greatest
danger through some friendly hand. It
merely tells which of the prisoners are
dead and which ure still alive, but
even this summary is eloquent enough.
We learn from it that out of the fifty-
two prisoners sent there in the course
of the last eight years twenty, or about
forty ner cent., are already dead. Sev
eral of those who survive should be
added to the list of the dead. They are
insane, and have lost what u as pre
cious if not more precious to a man than
life. , .
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WEALTH.
Many Obstarles in the Way of
.Mterpris-
il,c Iro,.4f:ttnt.
India is still a land of undeveloped
mineral wealth. The deposits of iron
and copper ore in certain districts are
enormous, butastnauv of these districts
are in the possession of semi-independent
princes the liritish government
does not care to arouse the ill feeling of
these princes by opening their lands to
prospectors. . Nevertheless, says the
Chicago News, the government has
managed to bring sufficient pressure to
bear upon them to persuade them to sell
to some commercial companies.
On the line of one of the railroads that
have lately been built in India the en
gineers, in cutting along the side of a
mountain, came upon a mine of almost
pure copper. A company immediately
wanted to get possession of the proper
ty either by purchase or otherwise. But
the prince to whom the property be
longed was too quick for the specula
tors. He called his heathen priests to
his aid. The union of church and state
proved very serviceable to the prince
upon this occasion. The priests acci
dentally passed by the cutting where
the rich copper vein was discovered and
here had a revelation of one of the po
tent Hindu gods.
Of course, the spot at once became
holy ground and the greedy English
men's bright dreams of millions van
ished into thin air when, a few days
later, they saw a temple put up on the
spot and two priests offering incense
before the image of the god that had
.'evealed himself.
THE BOYS PICK AT MK.
A Good Story in One Chapter Romance of
The Beautiful Bines.
Those who spend the most of their
lires in the oities, or on tbe more quiet
farms, know but little of bow reckless
the boys are who roam the mountains, in
the -perpetration of their pnnssnd jokes.
But why theshould pick at me I do not
know, unless they wish to obtain tbe
feathers or raise the bristles aa a com
modity of merchandise. But by permis
sion ot ye editor, I will relate how the
boys made merchandise of me, feathers,
bristles, and all, that the readers may
learn to sympathize with those wh6 are
trying to develop the oountry by the
discovery nf ber vast deposits of mineral
wealth. (Of oourse we have an eye to
tbe Hccnmulation of some of tbe root-of-
all-evil.)
Our menus of oarryiug supplies were
somewhat limited, so we often had to visit
the nearest little town in ordento keep
up our larder, and as I was constitution
ally opposed to hard labor I was the one
selected as laokey boy, and I fancy I
filled the office remarkably well.
One day as I returned to camp, a little
late for dinner, the boys informed me
there were a few cold victuals In the fry
ing pans. They were just knooking the
ashes from their pipes, and while two of
them removed the pack, tbe others were
telling me that one Mr. Brown had struck
a new and promising lead, a fact which
struok me well in a tender spot, and drew
from me a few soliciting questions such
as these: "Honest Ingin?" "Is that so?"
etc., whioh they answered by repeating
the old Jewish phrase " 'Tis all wool and
a yard vide."
By this time I was revolving it over
and over, in my mind, to see bow I might
profit by the new discovery.
Now mining men will often leave good
diggings on bearing of some new excite
ment, and rush pell mell through any
and all surrounding difficulties in order
to obtain art adjoining claim or seours
the extention on a new lead. Ho thought
I, why not avail myself of the present
opportunity and thus secure a fortune
whioh possibly might be almost unlim
ited in extent. 80 I requested them to
leave the saddle on my faithful pony,
wbom I have christened Don Carlos
Quixote, but call him Con for short, only
when I wish to designate bis superior
blood and snrefootedness.
I hastened to dispatch my luncheon,
mounted Don and galloped away, going
straight through tbe mountains, not
availing me of tbe more cirouitoui road
which wound around the bills, therefore
increasing tbe distance to Mr. Brown's
about eight miles.
Now to orons the mountains was at
tended with considerable danger, but
suoh bad been my life that peril was Bel
dom taken into account, especially when
nnder excitement. So I applied the row
ls and sped me on over the mountains,
down steep dtolivities into deep gorges,
thiough black pine poles, and pulled up
at the cabin door of Mr. Brown. The
usual frontier salutations passed between
us, and as be stood in tbe door, a rather
buxom looking woman came and leaned
ber bead on bis shoulder. She looked
the very picture ot health which is but a
characteristic of continuous mountain
lite.
I informed Mr. Brown that I had heard
he had struck a new and valuahle lend;
also Hint I was a mineral expert and presf
reporter, at the same time taking my
book and pencil from my pocket and
kindly requested him to answer a few
questions. Also stated that I might be
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of incalculable value to him. This last
dropped in by way of encouragement.
"Fire in," says he.
"You have done some development
work, I suppose?"
"O, yes, oertainly." '
"How does she open up, unyhow?"
"Fine! very promising."
"Then yon are well pleased with the
prospeots?"
"I am, indeed."
"Have you any returns for assays
made?"
None as yet; there has not been time,
but I am a pretty good judge in Buch
matters." '
By this time the woman went into the
kitohen in such a manner as to make me ..
think ber bread was burning or ber tea .
was boiling over, and I went on with my
queries.
"About what do you think will be the
value per ton?"
"Anyhow, fifty thousand.'',
Then my exoitement gained its zenith,
and I asked: ,
"Has any one located on tbe exten
sion?"
"None as yet," .
"Possibly X might profit by their tar
diness," I suggested. .,
"Not by my aid or consent."
Not wishing to orowd matters tooclose,
I thought to work on his sympathies, so
I told him bow, with my parents, I had
crossed the plains in the early fifties and
had aided in the development of tbe
great Willamette valley when dangers
beBet ns on every side; how tn my early
manhood I had traversed tbe hot plains
ot Eastern Oregon on my way to Idaho,
braving the dangers by tbe wild red man,
highway robbers and desperadoes, when
the dirk-knife and six-tbooters sat as
judge supreme, and lawlessness was by
many considered honorable, for whioh I
bBd never received just compensation,
and then ventured to say:
"You had ought to give me all the ad
vantages you oan."
I confess I had begun to think I had
about gained the victory over him, and
had within my grasp almost unlimited
wealth and as a ennaequenoe had about
lost faith in Bellamy and bis communis
tic theories, when he quietly said;
"Sir, I peroeive the' boys have made
you the butt of a praotioal joke."
"How is that?" says I.
"I have not discovered any valuable
ledge, as you suppose, but have only re
cently been married to Miss Leadia
Jones."
"Oh," says I, giving it the long Bonnd
of awe, Bnd running niy penoil throngh
my hair a few times by way of gaining
my menial equilibrium, mounted my
steed, stammered out "Uoud evening,"
"Uood-bye," nnd I dashed awny, but
heard something of the merrimet goinng
on at the bouse, (n,nd therejwas a wom
an's voice m it.)
I drew my watch from my pocket,
noted the time, six o'olook ten, and I
twelve miles from oamp. Now 00m
menoed a raoe against time. With full
faith in Don CarloB I plunged heedlessly
on, with time keeping neck to neok with
me. I fancy I laid in the shade the dar
ing ride ot Phil Sheridun, aud plunged
down declivities that rendered tame the
famous leap of Putnam.
I rode into oamp just as tbe pitch-log
fire was throwing its light on tbe pine
boughs o'erhend, dismounted, nnsaddled.
shackled my horse and gave him a few
strokes on the neok by way of approval,
and went up to the fire where the boys
ware sitting with quivering sides, look
ing steadily into the blaze, trying to sup
press their laughter.
"BoyB," says I, "the oigurs are yours."
Then commenced an uproar suoh as
none but a mountain oamp onn produce,
suoh a langh as is not the product ot
civilization, but a semi-barbarous state.
Somehow I had difficulty in seeing where
tbe laugh oame in.
Dear readers, believe me, in the bonds
ot human oredulity; but if you have any
aspirations ss a mineral expert or press
reporter, yon bad bettor look a "leetle
out," for these woods are full ot long
range, breeoh-loading, repeating pun per
petrators. And Mr. Editor, if you will
oall the house to order, we will arise and
sing (to the tune ot Yankee Doodle) this
uncommon doxology, and be dismissed.
Crooked Bill rode o'er the hill,
Nobody said he oughter:
Bat there he found that Mr, Brown
Had married Jones' daiiKhtor.
Altho' he's of a pious turn,
lie never takes a banter.
Now let us slug, he'll surely hring
CiKars, bat no decHiitcr.
Now listen, friends, and hear Mm tell;
There's some thtiiKS he won't mention.
Hut one thing sure, he can't secure
A cluiin on the extension.
Tho' he muy hear of a bran new wife.
He will not try to Ket her;
Hut when it Is he aoes for biz..
lie will know his business better.
C. B.
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